Boonta Vista - EPISODE 422: Herbie The Hate Bug

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: A famous ghost in the California desert, a Lovecraftian Pontypooling in Mulgrave, a distinctive classic car that will never be seen again in Iowa, a flamingo that will never be seen again in Cornwall, and a forgotten eBay purchase. *** Outro: Ginger Jumps The Fence - The Herbaliser *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Email the show at [e-mail]! Call in and leave us a question or a message on 1800-317-515 to be answered on the show! *** Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista Website: boontavista.com Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

Hey, she's got a sultan of a sideliohantzziled up up because of the fact she made with Azizov to get into 50 Avengers movies for all three bills. Absolutely, I know, it's a good thing. Hey, speaking of cool, welcome to Bonte Vista. It's episode 400 pens making them. What are we doing? I'm not happy with that. All right.

It was 422. I am Theo, and today we find ourselves in the ear space. That's right. It's a dimension, not so unlike our own, except many things are ears now. I'm here with, as every week, I'm here with Lucy, who has just finished taking a cotton tip to the ear of her microphone for the best audio performance. Oh, Lucy? Hi.

It really sounded scratchy there for a while, so I'm glad. But I put a Q-Tip in it because there's an ear, there's an ear on it. Because there's an ear on it. Well, it makes sense. It's a listening device. Are there ears on me or just like the regular? People are normal. People are regular.

Okay, just to eat. You've got ears. Remember those years. You've got them though. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And they're very, I don't, I realize I didn't have this experience.

anywhere in the intro so I'll just put this down now in my mind's eye they're very they're they're fleshy ears but they're it's not like from something either okay so also thanks for clearing that up also here with Andrew who's twiddling the inside of his ear to direct his war criminal character in black ops seven hey Andrew oh oh ah I just got a a triple combo of shooting ears with my ear gun. Ears shot. Do you like... Yeah, nice.

I think guns are still regular. I don't know. Yeah, but they got ears on both sides. Do you see the new blops is now? It's just all full of like AI bullshit and stuff now. And also it sucks. You're shooting a really big guy. Yeah.

That's the main thing I've seen. You're just shooting a guy is as big as a building and he goes, ah. It's like, um, King Kong, except it's a war criminal in U.S. soldier. I bet it's pretty fun, though. Cool. I bet it's pretty fun.

Couldn't tell. I tend to play. Of streamers saying, this is literally the worst game I've ever played in my last. That makes me want to get it. It rules that they're worth like tens of billions of dollars and they're still ready to just go like, well, you know what? This one didn't work out, but we're going to charge more than we ever have for a game for it.

It's 70 bucks, 70 US dollars to play blog. and they didn't even get someone to do the textures or whatever. Getting blopped. Yep. Finally, it's Ben. He's nibbling on the ear on the lid of his bottle of cornichon to try and get it to open up. Hey, buddy. Hey, mate.

Pickles in there. Yeah, a bottle of cornishons. I don't know. Is that what, that's what pickles are, right? Yeah, with the little pickles. The tiny little ones. And there's ears? Well, the lid.

The lid has an ear on them. The lid has an ear, right? He's got a little of the. the lobe of it. We've actually, we've invented this, yeah, squat type of bottle

with a bigger opening making it out easier to get your conscience out. We call it. We called a jar. Is there a probable? Sorry,

we got some feedback that we've actually been too mean to think it later. Let me walk a back. What is this? I think a bottle is a perfectly reasonable

way to describe a jar. I think that's very fine, actually. I am going to admit that there are probably other things that you should be taking issue with right now. Can I actually, I have those. If I had my druthers, it would be...

Here we go. This is spookily reminiscent of an intro that you have done before, except... Yeah. It's for an episode that only like 32 people have heard. That's right. I was thinking about this after I came up with it. And Lucy, you're not one of those...

And you're not one of those people. I'm not. Yeah. What is this episode? The very first live episode. So the people that were in the room and also one person has been allowed to hear the recording. Tau, I hope you enjoyed it.

But that was, of course, the famous lost toenails intro. Lost toenails, yeah. And you can sort of piece together. It's very similar to the ears intro, except it's toenails. I was also thinking, very reminiscent of Existence, Existence. Where do you put the emphasis when you're saying the movie title? Oh, Existence. So the David Cronenberg.

Not seeing it, but... Oh, there's like a fleshy game controller in there that's kind of made out of human flesh. I think we can do intros that are iterations and other introses. We're like eight, 900 episodes in at this stage. Iterative development. Yeah, what do you want us to do? Genre pieces.

Yes. Ombages to our own work. To a lost tape. Narrative through lines, things of that nature. Yeah. little ears on everything. Yeah. If you wanted to hear that last episode,

you could ask us for it by writing into the Bonta Vista Hotline. I wouldn't send it to you, but you would have still contacted us via the Boutta Vista hotline. It's time for the Buntar Vista Hotline. [phone]. That's the Bouta-Vista hotline.

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800317515 That's the Punta Vista hotline 1,800317515 That's the Bouta Vista Hotline That's the Boca Vista Heartline I did it again I was clicking around in the Discord while I was bopping to the theme

And I just, when was the last time you guys saw an image of Gabe Newell The Steam guy? Oh he kind of looks like David Letterman Looks like now Yeah, he's Letterman. Really? I just saw a really startlingly

beautiful image of him lying on a couch With a steam deck And a phone, I think But there's an almost like Renaissance quality to the way he's looking off into the distance of the sort of...

Yeah, kind of... Is you wearing a pink shirt? Are we seeing the same thing? Yeah, yeah, the pink polo. Yeah, that's nice. That's real nice. He looks like he's reflecting on maybe whether Steve was a bad idea.

It seems to be from a new story about how he's just taken delivery of a new $500 million super yacht. Yeah, he's rich as shit, dude. There's a pair of, like, there's a diving mask on the table next to him, and I love the idea that he's out there, snorkeling. Can we add him?

to like a triptych of guys we were just talking about George Aramann Gamer Doloro and then the gamer side of that triangle Gabe Newell The three points of the triangle Movies about monsters

Video games Fantasy novels Dragons and Non-concentual stuff If you want to make it a double-sided triangle With David Letterman And he's bringing them all together on the couch.

A double-sided triangle. Talking to them, yeah. And in what way? So I just got different ways. I just see things in a different fashion. You're just talking about like four. See the world wildly in wild ways, yeah. We could make it a triangular pyramid because that that has four points.

Oh, yeah. Extendium to the dimension. Otherwise, I think you're describing a square. This comes to us from listener Dave. Hi. Very good start. Hello. I love this. Good, clean, no nonsense.

It doesn't come up with... Yeah, no disgusting word to describe us based on Bunter or Vista. That's right. Happy spooky Vemba, here's my story. I think it's spook Vember. Drop the E. It's cleaner. In 2021, my wife and I moved from the Bay Area, California, brackets, United States.

Thank you very much. Okay, all right. down to the desert in the southern part of the state about a half hour drive west of the Joshua tree. The story isn't about a yucca man sighting though. Beautiful part of the country down there out there in your palm deserts and stuff. Beautiful.

The house we moved into had an interesting original owner named Dean Jones, who started a bunch of Disney's live action movies from the 1960s, such as That Darn Cat and the Love Bug. Legend has it that he followed a bit of a Don Draper crash out pattern in the way days of his stardom and got divorced after serial cheating and a drunken car accident.

He then found Jesus as a born-again Christian and moved to the desert to start over as one does. So far so good. Sure. The house was all we could afford and felt far away from civilization, but we felt extremely fortunate to be able to afford a house at all, and it seemed to be in reasonably good condition. Top of the line, 1980s appliances, which equates to mid-but-fine nowadays. We were especially excited about the hot tub room, i.e. a room with an indoor hot tub

that actually functioned after a little tinkering. Things started to get weird when I noticed that near the ancient air conditioning condensure of the backyard, there was an excerpt from the Lord's Prayer scrawled into the concrete pad talking about deliverance from evil. That is such an awesome, silent hill-ass thing to find. Amazing.

Uh-huh. I feel like we, I don't know, it's probably very similar in America, I don't know, but we, in Australia, we have come to knocking down houses as soon as they get like 15 years old or something. Someone else will buy them if you move out, house and they'll just knock it down. Yeah.

And where are you going to get a house with the, you know, Lord's Prayer scratched with what looks like fingernails into? I mean, I don't think you want that. That's haunted. Also, there's like one line in the Lord's Prayer that feels kind of spooky because the bit before it is, depending on which denomination you are, give us this day our daily bread. Not spooky. Not spooky at all. I put it to you the evil.

Most things sound spookier if you're shrieking them in fear while the Green Goblin comes him through the window. Yeah, that is true. True. Try saying most things while Willem Defoe cackles maniacly, crashing through the window, glass everywhere. Half an hour west from Joshua Tree. Do you live at Cochella?

How are we pronounced that? The music festival? Do you live at the Festival Cochella? So Cochella is a place When the festival is not on there as well It still exists I figured they pack that place up Are we allowing cocello?

Yeah We've got to let some slide through All of those syllables are in there Tell me they aren't Here's a really mentally healthy sounding story That this guy, Dean Jones

told in his book Underrunning Laughter 1982 in which he recounted his experience of becoming a born-again Christian. He had previously suffered from bouts of depression. His wife, Laurie, said, quote, one night he got down on his knees and prayed that God would free him from the miserable moods he had always suffered.

He told me that an incident, it was gone. And he felt peace and joy flood into his heart. Good, great, it worked. I've got to get that. I've got to get that in me. Yeah. Do you reckon it stayed like that forever? I reckon any of his moods ever maybe came back?

No, I think they're pretty stable, probably after that. You reckon he had a big smile on his face when he was scrawling that into the concrete? Later, we took the gigantic, elegant, brand microwave oven from the wall in the kitchen and found the famous Psalm 23-4 line about walking through the valley of the shadow of death written on the wall behind it.

Jesus. Hell yeah. Yeah. I'd be burning his house down, personally. No, I love it. I'd be embracing. the ghost. I've got to try to get some sort of satanic exorcist in there, you know?

And they say, no, actually, this is all God's stuff. Yeah, so it's a good ghost. Yeah, we can't exercise this. If you try to get a regular priest in there, he's going to go, uh, and the problem is. They have nothing creepy about this. You get the Pope's exorcist in there. He's going to say great. You've got to get the anti-Popes exorcist.

Yes. You get the Pope's exorcist in there and he's going to say, Oh, chau bella. The anticoats are ex-a-exist. He's just turning a different direction on his little scooter. God, he was having a good time in that movie. I got a lot of Russell Crow. He loved it.

At one point, my wife brought a replica Herbie the Love Bug model as a decoration and nod to Dean. But after bringing it into the house, weird things started to happen. It's a crazy thing to do. You're asking for trouble. A spirit catalyst. Herbie the Lovebug spirit catalyst into your haunted house. You brought in like a very specific object to get possessed. Yeah.

Like of all the things that the ghost is going to look at and go, ooh. Honey, you know, our house is haunted. That aside, I was thinking of purchasing an item of power for our house. Bring in a totem of sorts. Yeah. I actually got this really creepy, fucked up seven foot tall mannequin that's shaped like the character that he played

in the love bug I was just going to leave it in our bedroom and see what happens yeah yeah just watch over us knives for heads the spookiest oh wait sorry after bringing into the house weird things started to happen lights would turn on and off in the middle of night for example the spookiest thing was when we found an LP on top of our record player that neither of us remember getting a best of Scott Joplin the ragtime artist. What the fuck?

Nothing spookier than rag time. That is spooky. The record player puts itself on and some fucking rag time starts coming out a little bit more. How about this? I put the record on and as soon as the entertainer played, all the lights on one side of the house went off. That is the least spooky song in history.

It is, I cannot think of a single thing that would be less creepy to have happened during a paranormal experience except for maybe like who let the dogs out. Scott Joplin's the answer. Well, if movie trailers have taught us anything, if you play it a bit slower on a slightly out of the piano. Yeah, that's right. Slow down.

The entertainer, Rebecca harder? Yeah, absolutely. Look, you do raise a good point, though. I feel like it would be kind of hard, even if you were actively trying to make that song spooky. The Punta Vista Challenge, make a horror movie trailer with a spooky rendition of Scott Joplin's The Entertainer. You know he's going to send us in a minor key version of the entertainer.

It's going to fuck. Yeah, it's going to be absolutely beautiful and perfect in every way because that's just kind of how he is. Did you see the one he did of Major Key EMM1 version of... Sorry, version of E1M1 from Doom? So good. Sounds like Midwest emo. One curious detail was that the next morning,

Herbie model was on another shelf on our bookshelf. No, what's, come on, dude. They're not going to fucking ride into a podcast and lie. Destroy the totem. You must destroy it. Take it. Just throw it out into the middle of the Salton Sea. Get rid of it.

Say, I cast you out! You've already bought it in, right? Yeah. That's the first mistake. You don't want to create a situation where you start driving out into the desert, chucking it out the window, you come home and go to bed, you get up in the night. You feel a little peckish. You want a little something.

You open the fridge. You don't turn it on all the lights, you know. They don't want to be wasteful. Don't want to disturb your partner. You just open the fridge and the light from the fridge casts its eerie glow across the Herbie the Lovebug car sitting on the kitchen table pointed at you. You don't want that to happen. Now you can't take the car out of that.

It's make it mad. You've got to learn to live with the car. You led the ghost on. Let's be honest. You led the ghost on with the Herbie the Lovebug model. Don't make him mad. Don't take it back out. Don't taunt him about his life.

You know what we call on this movie? Make the ghosts think he's being punished. When we get the film rights to this secured, because it's read on this podcast, so now we own the rights to it because that's what our licensing agreement is. Herbie the hate bug. I was going to say the same thing. That's crazy. That's crazy.

That probably means it was a bad joke. Is Herbie the love bug in the public domain? No. We do one of those, Winnie the Pooh. Well, Winnie the Pooh is. That's what I was just thinking, Theo, is when will Herbie the hate bug be legally viable? I'm pretty sure that the shitty. Disney movie, like the remake of it from the 2000s with, was it Lindsay Loha that was in that?

Yeah. I'm pretty sure that would have been just to retain the rights for like another 50 years or whatever. Is that how it works though? Because I thought it's like from when it's start. No, that's absolutely the reason that there's like, just when you see a remake of something and go, you do that for it. Nobody was interested in that. Dr. Seuss stuff.

There's the fantastic four movie that they made, but never really. least so they can retain the rights. It's amazing. It's so good. It's like, yeah, it's good. It's very, very good. Here's the problem I've got with the ghosts moving stuff around while you sleep. Trope, right?

And I really come in negative on that. It's a me problem. I'm going to say, it's a me problem. And my problem is that I have, I barely have object permanence. Okay? I continually lose things like walking from my house to my car and my car is now in my house and I go like, where's my sunglasses? I just had them.

I literally, I was holding them in my hand. And from the point that I picked them up to where I'm going is like five meters. And at some point I have lost them. You know, I went into our boys' playroom yesterday morning. and I sat down in my Poang, my IKEA Poang to enjoy my coffee and like 15 minutes later

Caitlin came in and pointed out that there was now a full Christmas tree and four enormous Christmas stockings put up in that room. Huh. Would you look at that? You're saying that

the problem with ghost moving stuff around is that you are an ADHD girlie. Yes, correct. Yeah, okay. Yeah. And so I can't connect with it. Whoa, something isn't where it was last. Yeah, that's my whole life.

I remember where everything is. Everything is in motion. Everything is transitory. What do you want from me? I remember where every single object I put down is because I put it down in that place for a reason. Yeah, because you've got dietic memory. Don't take the bait, Ben. Don't know.

No, your skis. Whatever strange things would happen, we just started saying, Hey, Dean, or Dino, and it never really escalated to poltergeist-slash-hunted house territory. Just a weak ghost. Can't really move much around. I mean, not all ghosts are angry, right? Not. He's a celebrity ghost who's vulnerable to flattering.

True. If they are angry, put them through the cogs. Stretch them out. Stretch them out. In the cogs. Surely you got one of those in your basement. the ghosterciser. Oh, Dean's back.

We've kept the best seat in the house for you right here at the kitchen table. You know, show him through, do the long tracking shot from Goodfellas to bring him from the front door to the kitchen table. Make him feel special. Yeah. Make it feel special, you know. Walk him in through the kitchen instead of the front door to make it feel special. Celebrity ghosts love that.

Oh, Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones and me. Oh, that's the other name. for the movie. Herbie the hate bug, colon, Mr. Jones and me. The Church of the Fair Tales.

Anyway, I'm sure there's a logical explanation for all of these things. Yeah, you've got to go. You've got a ADHD. You're an ADHD, girlie. You're a married pair of ADHD girls.

Bad news about the pharmaceutical companies in America, I'm sorry. Help is not on the way. Okay, wow. Yeah. You can probably develop, like, tools to deal with it that aren't pharmaceutical, I guess. They keep trying to get me to go to those things, like, after hours, like, hey, we've got a, and they're, like, they've called me multiple times. Now, I did ask them to call me, right?

So that's probably why they continue to call me. But, hey, got a course on over, it's like, you know, over a few weeks, like one week night, every week for, like, nine weeks or something like that. You'll build up the tools you need to better understand, interact with the world, blah, blah, I'm like, I'm never going to remember to come back to you. I'm sorry. I've got ADHD. Okay. Yeah, like, because you're taking medication for it.

So, like, maybe you should be able to just sort of, can't you just try harder? You sound like my psychologist. A house built by a crazed Christian, newly on the wagon, could have writing that wasn't up to code. Wiring. Wiring that wasn't up to code. Wiring. That makes more sense. We might have grabbed... The Christian writing wasn't up to code either. We might have grabbed the Scott Joplin record

from a Dolbin over the years and forgotten about it. The annoying dirt bike child next door, whose mother pulled him out of school because of woke or something could have broken in and moved her to be in the middle of the night. All plausible, but what if? Yeah. Cheers, David. You got a celebrity ghost.

Celebrity ghost. You have a celebrity ghost. That's such a perfect setting for a place to have a ghost as well. I fucking love this. This is so cinematic. Spielbergian, you know, late, hot nights. No one can fall asleep. All the windows are doors are open.

There's a strange blue glow from the ghostly energies. Your curtains are being ruffled by a gentle desert breeze. Yeah. And all you can hear is the sound of... That's right. You can hear the wind through the Joshua tree. ...in that darn cat. A soft sound of the entertainer being played on the 33 setting,

even though it's a 45. Remind me how the entertainer goes. Which one's that one? And it goes for seemingly 20 minutes with no variations. You can slow that down. They can be spooky. It's got a really... I think the problem is not just the notes.

It also has like a very jaunty rhythm. It's annoying as fuck. It makes me not want to watch the sting, even though I know it's a great movie. I fucking hate that some. Hey, Dean Jones also was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance as Albert Dooley

in The Million Dollar Duck. Now, that sounds good. That sounds good. That's one lucky duck. Do you remember when Disney Plus came out in Australia and everyone was realizing that we were maybe not exposed them in Australia but Disney has this deep back catalogue

of unbelievably shit live action movies from the 60s through them? Oh, yeah. But then some good ones. The black hole? holy fuck the black hole what an incredible movie scary visuals it's so creepy and the score the main theme to the black hole oh my fucker god it's so good you gotta watch the black hole can't all be gems though you know yeah they can't all be with us flight of the navigator i want to add to

that great score the navigator again really unsettling is that an allan silvestry score on flight on the navigator, I think. That's another beautiful one. It's about a 12-year-old boy who, I guess he finds like a UFO and he gets into it and has a little jet around. And then he comes back to Earth. And Earth is like eight years into the future. His family's moved away. No one knows who he is or remembers him. That's very funny. It's like a really terrifying thing to happen to a 12-year-old. You go and do something adventurous and you come back in your entire life has been obliterated. nothing for you to do.

I guess it's what happens when you meddle with forces that are larger than even your imagination. Yep. Yeah. That's very true, yeah. I always get confused with that movie that little baby Ethan Hawke was in when he was just a little baby boy. A little baby, but also has something to do with an alien spaceship. I don't know that one. Explorers.

You guys know explorers? No. Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, 1985. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hawke and Phoenix I'll try to cover that in my I'm probably really

really trying to populate the filmography of Ethan Hawke of my Plexerver for Lucy Yeah, we're enjoying that Thank you. Going through the Ethan Hawke catalogue Can you get the chair company for me please Andrew? Don't bump your

requests on the podcast recording I should have replied to him It was rude of me You don't have to be sorry, Andrew It's not good All right Good radio We've got another email here

I think they like it The worse it is The more people like it So Kind of seems that way The UFO thing I can't remember how But we got the guy that rode in

Talking to us about So Will rode in Talking to us about How he saw a UFO in Moulgrave Will Will rode in or we'll ride in And when we're Will he do it?

The other guy saw... That's really funny. The other guy saw a Bigfoot. Yeah. The Bigfoot, sorry. Not any Bigfoot. So Theo theorized that the Synchrotron, which I said, wrong, I guess, the first 20 times. And I didn't correct you.

I let you go a million times. Is it synch-o? Not synchro. Synchro. No, it's synchro. It is Synchro. Synch-R. I've been saying Synch-o.

Sounds like a fucking idiot, dude. Yeah. I felt, I felt foolish when I realized. but especially because every single email seen about it had spelled it correctly. I would never let you feel foolish. But a real friend would have intervened to stop me from making a fool of myself.

Yeah, I kind of. Whereas your adversity to conflict has actually, it's more harmful. Do you see how you've hurt me? No, sorry, I was looking at that photo of the two wolf puppies fighting. All right, so, there is an email UFO over Mulgrave Theo was zooming it on the map

saw the synchrotron someone wrote in and said hey I work at the synchrotron I believe that that man was named Dave all right we have a follow up to that follow up email from we're back to Will we've gone Will Dave or it will

Will writes Hey Buntologists just a follow up to something Theo raised in response to my experience of seeing a UFO and Morgrave A few years before I saw the UFO, I was actually a volunteer for a scientific experiment at the synchrotron. Huh. You're trying to get flight of the navigated. Good Lord.

What the hell is happening? What do you mean? This is one of the best questions we've ever asked because it sure has been a wonderful window into, you know, the beautiful cornucopia of human experience. And to have this unravel over multiple episodes. like a thrilling game of email chess. It's just beautiful. Oh, like a game of civilization, play by mail. And I am immediately developing a theory similar to what goes on in Bloodbourne,

how exposure to the continual kind of ingress of horrors raises your insight level. And I believe, Will, that your insight level has been raised due to your contact with the synchrotron. Yes, which is why the synchrotron's influence was more visible to you. And the synchrotron is also a nexus of these places, of these webs that weave between our worlds. It's a lot like that HP Lovecraft story from beyond. You have stimulated your pineal gland, allowing you to see extra-dimensional entities. Bloodbourne has to have been like inspired by a bunch of this stuff, right? Oh, Lovecraft, absolutely.

All of the big, you know, tentacles, multi-eyed creatures beyond comprehension. And the fact that, like, going more insane allows you to see more of them, but also makes you more prone to going more insane. It's almost H.B. Lovecraft stuff. What an incredible mechanic, bloodborn. Truly the masterpiece they said it was.

Hope to play it one day. Oh, so good. I was told that it was a linguistics experiment for Monash, where I was starting at the time. And the synchrotron... A linguist kept saying Pontypool over and over to me. Pontypool. They're doing Pontypool, the synchrotron?

You are so fucking close. And the synchrotron building across the road just happened to be where both... It happened to be where the uni had a spare room to put the linguistics PhD lab. Oh my God. I'm sure. This is...

What do you mean? Do you even notice that the synchrotron was running every time you were there? A loud humming sound? Just ignore that. We've got to go and do linguistics at the sync for Trite. Do you know how it's saying you sound right now? This is a SCP.

This is... This is the best thing that's ever happened to us. They put me in a soundproof booth and had me read a series of unrelated words that set me on my way with a $50 Coles gift card. Oh, my God. Ogdrujihad, Anungun Rama. Just random sort of words and sounds. Pondipal.

Yeah. This is amazing. The $50 gold is what makes an Australia Gothic at the end of all of this. Each time there's a rumbling under the earth as, you know, the ancient prison containing the old ones just cracks a little bit more. Another little crack. You're good for the same time next week? Yeah, being sent home from the Eternal House with a $50 gift card. Oh, this will make my groceries more manageable this week.

You can actually use this at Myr as well. Yeah. Not anymore. They're like very much a narrowing what you can do with each gift card to reduce the possibility that you will actually spend it before it goes off. Yeah. They're such a good scam. Gift cards, whoever came up with that, what an incredible mind. And I hope you get what's coming for you. Can I fund your cash into something less fungible? Less fungible that also runs out at the end. Yeah. Would you like your money to have a used by date and less fungibility? We can do that for you. Theo has me curious. Was this really a linguistics experiment, or were my words used in some way through the synchrotron to make me an unwitting conduit for visitors from the beyond?

I think we've all agreed on that. I think we're 100%. Yeah, we're definitely thinking all the same lines. I cannot believe that this happened. I have to believe it. Both the experiment and then the sequence of events to lead us to this point. And it couldn't have happened to a better podcast either. If so, did I potentially derail first contact through my anxious aversion to getting involved,

much to consider warm regards will? No, this is all part of it. It's all part of the beautiful makeup. They're also, you've got to think that these visitors are working over very long timelines. This isn't going to be the last time you see this UFO. They had to get over here, presumably, at sublight speeds. Maybe they have wormhole tech. Maybe it's sort of interdimensional travel,

and the other dimension they're going through is spatially smaller than ours or something. Or maybe time is not important to them in the same way that is to us. Fourth dimensional Mowgrave UFO, yes, Tesseract, time cube. So it takes the millions of years to arrive here, and that's okay. Yeah, because they are always going to have been here. So in a sense to them, already here.

And they're just riding the freaking cosmic waves. Yeah, brother. Man. Hell yeah, dude. Spaceship wherever they come from. We're all in this together. Hey, having a beautiful experience with a UFO

and then not taking advantage of it by being accepted and absorbed into the UFO to go back to their dimension, to me that seems like a bit of a crime. We talk about crimes in Crime Watch. Please put down your weapon. You are in direct violation. You're code 113, section 9.

You now have five seconds to the fly. Help me! Get me! Help me! I'm not a great in the physical force. This comes from W.H.O. in Des Moines, Iowa. Who? Des Moines police seek public's help in fighting stolen, classic car.

De Boisne. De Boing. De Boing. De Boing. As part of the De Bois Police Department's wanted Wednesday efforts, police are asking for the public's help. Yeah, this is when they post a guy that's wanted. Fucking hell.

I can't decide. In De Bois, they're doing this. Like, so either they have established that like, if you ask people every day to find someone. Yeah. It's fatigue. I'm getting burned out on that, man. Absolutely.

I'm getting absolutely. The attention economy. You asking me to keep a lookout for a different criminal every day. So maybe just one day a week, wanted Wednesday, hey, we haven't bugged you all week about this. Just keep your eyes up. This is your reminder. Either that, or there's only one day a week that the Des Moines police can be fucked looking into a wandered person. Oh, Des Moines.

All the cops get up Wednesday morning. It's wanted Wednesday. I hate Wednesdays. Worst day of the week. I'm going to get a whole bunch of freaks email on us. They make us all put our phones away when we come in and go through some paperwork. Everybody put your phones in the box. Were you saying Des Moines the whole time, Ben?

Des Moines? Yeah. Yeah. Ah, I thought you were saying Deboin. I know, which is why I was confused with you saying Debois. You've been saying De Bois. You've been saying De Bois. You've been saying De Bois.

It's like the end of the six cents. You've been saying Du Bois in the whole time. Police are asking for the public's help to find a classic car that was stolen from downtown last month. Sergeant Paul Parazek, public information officer for the DMPD, said the distinctive red 1978 Pontiac Trans Am was parked in the area of 4th Street and Park Street on September 19th. Yeah, police are interested in concentrated gatherings of people going, Yeah Nice Is that the 350 hemi in there?

Yeah Yeah Sick It was about three blocks away From the Casey Center We're a Jason Aldean Can you say that

Jason Aldean That's not the first time This has happened on this podcast Try that in a small town guys Oh, your dude Yeah Your guy My guy!

Yeah you like this stuff No I don't He's closest to being your guy I think we're going to Yeah, okay If he's anyone's guy, he's my guy. You know what, pumps into my head, just constantly for no reason. I don't even know how many years ago this was.

Andrew, we were talking, you were referring Lucy to some pop country that you were enjoying, and you singing the phrase, cold beer and a Snapchat story so perfectly. It's, you have such a beautiful voice. It's a little worm that just gets in my brain every now and then. Lucy, I assume you have seen a video that's been doing the rounds of someone who's taken every instance they could find them, countries, single thing. Cold beer, cold beer, cold beer. It's real good stuff.

It's good stuff. It's great stuff. It turns out they're saying it all the time. Police believe the car, which is valued up more than $50,000, was stolen between 5 p.m. and midnight. It is likely the custom Iowa plates, nasty T.A. have been removed. You got a nasty Trans Am? Put them back on.

But Sergeant Parracek said if you saw the vehicle, you'd probably remember it. Now, you guys know what one of these looks like? It's a muscle car, right? It's the fucking, like, the Pontiac Firebird that has the bird on it. Yeah, look at the chat. Look at the chat. They are, like, maybe history's coolest-looking dumb guy car. Yeah.

It's pretty cool. Like, they're just so fucking sick. You're never seeing that car. again. The scene in dazed and confused where Matthew McConaughey is leaning out of his windows. This is the car you're imagining that he's doing that phone.

When he's doing the Peterphelia stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that. Yeah. Moustache too. See, I'll go a different theory. I reckon we're going to find the car dumped. No plates. You reckon they just wanted the plates? Just want the plates. Nasty T.A.

Nasty T.A. For a teacher's assistant, that's a bit nasty. Exactly. It's like a nasty sense. Put that up in your... Yep. Put that up in your stationary room Well, you can't afford the custom plates on a teacher's salary That's the thing

You're expensive This is really This is really a crime of policy Yeah I'm not asking for your whole car That'd be unreasonable Yeah I just for me

I think if you stole this car Like history's most perfect road tripping car You're not going to be anywhere near Iowa You're already gone That's for 100% you're driving to the house, roughly the area of the house

of the first person that rode into us. You're out in the desert, Palm Springs, Palm Desert. You're lying up those long desert roads. Collexico. Crossing Arizona. El Centro. Oh my God. Fucking forget about it.

The Algodonese June area. A crime that provides its own getaway vehicle is gone. It's kind of perfect. And also you would be so warmly received everywhere you went. Every, like, shitty roadside bike a bar that you go to, a lot of whistling happening. A lot of whistling. You look, leaning up against your car in the middle of fucking nowhere, the painted hills, the petrified forest, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah.

Come on. Lizard town, Arizona. You pull up to the lights, someone pulls up next to you in one of the really bad corvettes. Is that what I'm thinking of, Ben? We're talking about Bumblebee from the new Transformers movie. Camaro, he turns into a new Camaro. You're at the lights, a new Camero pulls up and you look at each other. Ooh, give a little rev.

Yeah. You take off and you smoke that new Camero, whether or not that's like feasible in real life. Spiritually, it's always going to happen. And also spiritually, if he absolutely blows you away, you just let your passenger and go, I'll let him win. You're just a 17-year-old. You're a 17-year-old boy at a gas station somewhere south of Albuquerque. This sweet Trans-Am arrives.

He pays for fuel pumps at himself, of course. Comes in. You hear a clang noise, says, keep the change. You look down, a set of plates that say nasty TA. Can I say I really enjoyed that you said gas station like it was in italics? Like we were using a foreign word in a sense. Station. At that gas station.

I'm not touching that with my native tongue. I'm not going to do the accent. Can you imagine how much of the stuff from Vanishing Point would happen to you? No, because I haven't seen it. You should watch it. You'd probably get sleepy. Probably a little boring to you. How long is it?

Is it a long one? It's about a tight 90 minutes, I think. But it's just very slow. It's a very slow, beautiful movie. I was really, I realized the other day. haven't seen any kurosawa um so i saw rashaman's only like 90 minutes long i could probably knock that out yeah easily could the other ones are quite long i think seven samurai's quite and i hear that you could probably watch the first third of the movie or something like that and

that's really know pretty well what's going on that's really good that's your highbrow yeah it's really clever on your phone in bed sometime well i think i got the whole picture here Sometimes the environment on this podcast feels very hostile Like it's full of animals, like a zoo We talk about zoos in Zoo Watch Double watch It comes from the English language French news service

The Connexion Escapeed Pink Flamingo from Cornwall Zoo spotted in Brittany So you guys know where Cornwall is Yeah. You know where Brittany is. Boy, do I. Yeah. Yeah.

That's quite far. That's gone. It's fucking gone. This isn't the first time I've done this. Where's Brittany? France. France, I believe. It sounds like it's Brittany.

Yeah. It's British. But it's actually in France. If it was Britain, it would just be Britain, I guess. Yes. This is like pretty close. Brittany, yeah. Britney, yeah.

Not quite the thing. A runaway pink flamingo is thought to have been cited in Brittany after escaping from a zoo 160 kilometres away in England. It's very funny to imagine it running away. Well, they, you'll see. Okay. Frankie, a four-month-old female Caribbean flamingo, took flight from Paradise Park in Cornwall on November 2nd

despite having her wings clipped. She managed to fly over her walled enclosure and leave the park. Pretty fucking good. Cool. Clipped wings? I'm out of here. I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit.

I'll flap harder, motherfucker. You can't clip my wings. You can't fly. But I won't do anything. Well, I think the clipped wings only let her get over the fence And then it's time to steal a transam Yes, and then get the chunnel Transam through the chunnel

Through the chunnel? Did this Flamingo take the channel? Just take the channel I think it might have taken the chuttle Might have hitched a ride on a lorry that was going through the channel Probably a lorry in the channel And that, to some ears, that sentence sounds normal Yep

Perfectly ordinary. I got chunneled on a lorry, you know? Yeah. And all I got was this stupid t-shirt. Briefly spotted in nearby Hale, her whereabouts remained unknown until yesterday, November 10th. Briefly spotted? Briefly spotted. That chal-derm moves quick. Nasty T.A.

Diving a panting with custom plates? when Park managers believe she was spotted in coastal Brittany quote we are letting you know that there have been sightings of a flamingo on the coast of Brittany in France said Paradise Park in a statement on social media there is a population of greater flamingos in southern France and the young birds look very similar to Frankie but we believe we can see the feathers on the right wing have been clipped we are waiting for more photos to help confirm that is Frankie

they're not ready to assume anything that's fantastic hey there's some flamingos around here so you would think straight away oh we're not interested yes they're going to check it out yeah they're going to sort this out i feel like there should be some sort of like code of honor that if you clip the wings on a flamingo it still flies away hot wire as a train zam drives through the channel gets to another group of flamingos just be like okay how bad all right you got out and you're with your with your kind of again you're with your people yeah yeah you are just enjoy the rest of the world we thought the rest of your life was going to be this tiny little

enclosure now the rest of the world is yours to explore the one place you can't go yeah that tiny little enclosure yeah no lad back like if you leave don't come back you can get more flamingos yeah you can get more flamingos can i speak of getting birds can i give you guys a tiny a little dump it. I'm really enjoying dump it actually as a way. A little outlet for Ben?

It's like an expunge something that was only mildly interesting as a summary. And also I don't have to remember the details of it correctly. It doesn't matter. It's the vibe.

It's time for dump it. When the story ain't funny enough dump it when there ain't enough funny stuff if you walk the show to be good then go on and dump all that stuff

I saw a story this week about a woman in Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Correct A woman who had a farm in Gloucestershire where she had successfully raised an emu It's like two or three years old now.

Emu is a female emu named Jonathan. It's quite charming. I like that. And you can raise them quite high too. Yeah, about the height of a man. Pretty tall, yeah. Yeah, pretty tall. Apparently they live between like 30 and 40 years.

Oh, Jesus, really? Isn't that fucking crazy? A 30-year-old emu? Yeah. When we first got Lou, having the weird thought of being like, oh man, I'll probably be like 40 and still have Lou. Isn't that wild? Because when I was 30, I was like, that's a crazy.

age to be, 40. Imagine that you're 30 now and you're getting an e-bue and you're like, when I'm 70, I will likely still have this emu. That's fucked. What a crazy thought. Lucky I'll never get sick of this e-bue. This en-you will never become

a burden to me. She got this emu, she raised it. She's very happy. Blah-blah, blah, blah. She got this emu in an eBay spending spree that she can't remember. Oh no, honey. You can buy an emu on eBay?

She got an emu egg on eBay and she just like clicked around and added a bunch of shit to her shopping cart, didn't remember it, woke up like the next day, looked at her phone, was like, oh my God, I bought an emu egg. Yeah. And then she is now raised, like she had to buy all the stuff. She already had a farm, so she already had space. But she had to get specialist like emu shit. so that she could raise a healthy emu in a healthy emu environment.

Now she's got an emu. I'm glad that she's well placed to house this emu. Yeah, it's like she's not living in like a shoreditch. Like an apartment, yeah. Yeah, because you wouldn't. Emu in the apartment. Ugh, bad vibe. You know that video of the guy that's walking around, the English guy walking around with an emu?

She's not an ostrich, she's an emu. You know that one? No. I do now. You guys ever see that one? It's like a car full of lads are yelling at him. He's like, what's her name? She's not a she, she's an E.

It's Worrell. He's an absolute cunt. No. I'll put this in in post. What the fuck? You're not a bird, bro. You walk in a fucking ostrichid have come. It's a fucking emuio.

It's an emu. Let's have a look at it. A fucking emu man This is a beauty in she It's in a heat Oh is it It's a name's waters You're fucked up you mate

He's an asshole You're fucked up you You're fucked up you You guys haven't seen that It was one of the great internet videos I want to know where that guy Kinks his emu Because it appears that he's living

Like in a city But yeah How about that That lady I've just never Made like purchases That I can't remember I have occasionally

used the excuse of drunkenness to hit okay on my discos shopping cart. Yeah, like you're more loose with it. Yeah. But short, you'd remember it, right? Yeah, right. At least I know that I had the intention of buying it. I'm always like, you know what? I don't need to spend another $100 on records from some guy in Colombia.

And then I have a couple of years. I'm like, you know what? Fuck it. I'll just not go out for breakfast this week. Yeah, like when you were telling this story, Ben, I just purchased the reboot of the Pebble Watch. Right now? And when it arrives, I won't be surprised.

I won't go. I don't remember. While we're recording the podcast? Yeah. You just did that just then? I did some e-shopping, yeah. Have we, like, gotten to the limit of what you can focus on? Just the end of...

Hey, Ben, I did that the other day. I ordered a handful of Italo disco single. I don't know where to start with Atalo Disco. I felt real good. I try not to be on the computer when I'm with the children and stuff like that, you know? So you have to do your own. Online shopping down. Doubling up.

You had no choice but to buy a smart watch while podcasting. Sometimes when I'm in therapy and it's like $230 a session or something like that. His phone slowly sliding into view. No, no. My therapist will be like talking and she'll be like, it'll be getting like to like the 40 minute mark or whatever. And she'll be talking about strategies for coping with blah, blah, blah. And she'll just stop and she'll go like, where did you go just? then, Theo?

Oh, I was just... Oh, getting busted in therapy. I was just thinking about installing Linux on, you know, whatever or something, you know. She said, oh, I was just curious because sometimes, like, I'm talking and you just go somewhere else. While she's giving you some strategies to deal with exactly this problem and you're not listening to them, it's sort of the paradox of ADHD. Yeah.

You can't go to the course that would teach you how to be good at having ADHD because you have ADHD. But I can order a pebble watch. What do you want a smart watch for? What do you need it for? I want to get, I want to get, oh, yeah, it's just us here, right? It's a safe space, yeah. I'm looking around and I think it's just us. I want to be able to watch a porno on my wrist.

And I've got like a set of like professional interests and I said, I want like power prices on my watch. So I'm going to look at it. So, hey, look, power prices are high. Right enough of your tax, bro. You want to have, like, a constant feed of power prices on your wrist. And some other stuff, the time, too. For the conversation starter? No.

I hope that nobody sees it. Because it's not like you're sitting there being like, your job is it to be like, oh, buy, sell. Like, do you need a real-time feed? Yeah, no, I'm not a traitor. Yeah. No. I kind of work in, like, well down the timeline, kind of the analysis kind of part of it.

So there's no real use for that. Every now and then I get the idea, and this is embarrassing as well, just like your thing, that it would be nice to have, like, one of those smart mirrors, not with a camera or anything on it, but it just puts like, oh, what's the forecast for today? What's the blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, that looks so cyberpunk, dude.

I don't need that fucking information at all. It wouldn't change my day. What would? I maybe wouldn't barbecue. if it was going to rain. But you can tell when it's going to rain because it's Brisbane. You can just kind of look outside, yeah. It would be cool to have, but I don't need it.

Is there an open source smart mirror? Yeah, almost certainly, yeah. Open source smart mirror. All right, we'll get back to you on this. Magic Mirror 2, the open source modular smart mirror platform. We can hang out in your garage, do some soldering and stuff. Oh, shit, okay. Put some together, a couple of boys, couple of mid-strength,

beers, listen to some whatever your shit music is. I'll put on some of my shit music, the swap shit music. You know exactly what my shit music is, Ben. Yeah, I know, I was being fake. You wouldn't put possessions on your beautifully curated list of outro tracks? No, because I was specifically, it's a really good song. So someone has made a playlist, and I'm so sorry, I'm not shouting about it, because I can't remember. we actually have two competing playlists

one of songs mentioned on the podcast one of songs uses outro tracks on the podcast and it is now in a sort of reverse feedback mechanism influencing the songs that I use as outro tracks because I'm worried that someone will have it on in a social situation and that if I put something on there that ruins the vibe

I have DJed badly and someone said the other day that they put it on at a house party that they were having it I was like well great I'm glad I didn't put possessions by strapping on land at the end of an episode because that would have been a real fucking vibe killer with everything else that's on there.

It's like the most major key song they have. It's very abrasive. It's also like seven minutes long. It is not. You're thinking of Skexas. I'm just going to mention a song so that the song gets mentioned and goes onto the playlist because I know Ben won't put it at the end of the episode. Correct.

Listen to the song Trans Am. by Yellow Wolf and DJ Paul. Do you just recommend Yellow Wolf? Yeah. No, he got really good again. Really? In 2021. He just kept putting stuff out.

I love it. I think he went and had like a big mental breakdown and a bunch of rehab. Nice. Fuck yeah. And then he came back and was like, still doing drugs. You know? Cool. Sick.

Awesome. Possessions is four minutes and 12 seconds long. So, you know, whatever. Yeah, no excuse. Thank you so much. for listening to the podcast, Bonta Vista. It's been a pleasure having you here. If you want two of these a week,

it's about the price of a pot of beer a month. Patreon.com slash Buna Vista. We have a lot of fun with those bonus episodes. We're a little silly with it on those bonus ones, unlike these ones, where we're a little more professional, a little more polished, a little more serious. Until then, stay safe.

I'm not reading out all of the paranormal stuff that we're getting sent in because we're getting sent quite a lot, but I am loving reading them all. I still, I think... Some of them are too scary to read on the show. Too frightening and occasionally... Too spooky.

Too long. But while Spook Vembra is going, if you've got... I really liking this UFO sort of focus that we've got, but I also do want to be surprised and delighted like the Gnomes one. So, you know, keep them coming. I'm loving reading them. Otherwise, stay safe.

We'll talk to you soon. Bye. Bye. Thank you.